BREAKING — Gen. James Jones is resigning as President Obama’s national security adviser. Tom Donilon, the deputy national security adviser, will replace him, a senior administration official tells POLITICO.

Jones’s resignation will take effect in two weeks. Obama will make an announcement in the Rose Garden Friday afternoon. — Glenn Thrush and Carol E. Lee (10:05 a.m.)

Smart folks working for this abnormal Administration will be leaving in droves (unless they believe at this Socialist President does)...

By "smart" I hope you mean those who can read the writing on the wall. None of them are "smart" in a economic or security sense. Romer left because she couldn't figure out why her economic theories didn't work............

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posted on 10/08/2010 7:32:03 AM PDT
by Red Badger
(No, Obama's not the Antichrist. But he does have him in his MY FAVES.............)

But the schedule was accelerated, and in recent weeks White House staff had been increasingly critical of General Jones for statements that he apparently made to Bob Woodward, the author of Obamas Wars, an account of the internal decision making on policy Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Mr. Donilon began as young political operative for President Jimmy Carter and later was chief of staff for Secretary of State Warren Christopher in the Clinton administration.

This is not good news. As a former Commandant of the Marine Corps and Supreme Allied Commander of Europe, General Jones could have easily taken a coushy job at a major corporation and raked in the bucks. Instead, he took this job because I believe he thought he still had something to offer to serve the country he loves and help win this war on Islamo Fascism.

If he’s resigning, that means he can’t do anything to influence this bozo to actually win these wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Tensions often turned personal. National security adviser James L. Jones privately referred to Obama’s political aides as “the water bugs,” the “Politburo,” the “Mafia,” or the “campaign set.” Petraeus, who felt shut out by the new administration, told an aide that he considered the president’s senior adviser David Axelrod to be “a complete spin doctor.”

During a flight in May, after a glass of wine, Petraeus told his own staffers that the administration was “[expletive] with the wrong guy.” Gates was tempted to walk out of an Oval Office meeting after being offended by comments made by deputy national security adviser Thomas E. Donilon about a general not named in the book.

Suspicion lingered among some from the 2008 presidential campaign as well. When Obama floated the idea of naming Clinton to a high-profile post, Axelrod asked him, “How could you trust Hillary?”

Still, First Lady Michelle Obama sent out a plaintive if blunt e-mail appeal the other day — for her husband’s campaign outfit.

And now Michelle Obama’s mother’s son-in-law has followed suit with a money plea — again, for his own campaign outfit.

“I need you in the game,” he cries.

*snip*

Then the pitch: The president would like a measly little $3 donation, more if you prefer.

Thanks to an unidentified “fellow grass-roots supporter,” the Democrat says, that donation will be matched dollar-for-dollar. That means, in case your calculator has choked on all those digits in the deficit, “your $3 donation will become $6.”

And then the politician who relentlessly pushed healthcare last year ignoring polls saying the economy was America’s overwhelming concern, makes a surprising confession:

“I didn’t run for president because I wanted to do what would make me popular.”

I guess, if you are of a generous mind, you could say he wanted to continue serving his country...
but I think he picked the wrong administration and they used him as window dressing...and he let them.
Too bad....

Actually, I mean SMART... Anyone who actually thinks that he/she is working for the Administration is probably like minded or stupid. The politically smart folks will be leaving in a hurry... of course, they need to be watched carefully, after all, they seemed to think that they would succeed here... I’d say, they should be banned from any public office in the future - but that is just me...

“President Barack Obama blasted opposition fund-raisers at a campaign rally Thursday, charging that they solicited foreign donations and pumped the millions of dollars they received into congressional races.”

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